$3 Billion 'Bailout' for Oil Producers Dropped From Economic Stimulus Package

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By Dana DrugmandMar 30, 2020, 1:23 pm283 pts
Read time: 6 mins Bucking President Trump’s directive for buying oil to fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), Senate Democrats last week nixed what they say was a $3 billion bailout for oil producers from the coronavirus economic stimulus bill that passed the Senate on March 25. An earlier version of…

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